The pressure of the US president, Donald Trump, so that Ukraine accepts a proposal to end the war that has the Moscow footprint in practically all his points not only anguish to kyiv. Also in Brussels I know that in their efforts to achieve an exit to war that lasts more than three years, he insists on ignoring a European Union to which he has already made it clear that he despises.
While they continue to claim their site in the negotiations, the twenty -seven are looking for how the Ukraine position policy and militarily so that it arrives “strong” to any negotiating table.
On this path, Brussels knows that he walks through a very fine line: aware that of negotiations that Trump had promised to solve “in 24 hours”, the European bloc tries not to stir even more to the unpredictable Trump. The EU does not want the United States to disregard a conflict in which US help has been essential. But neither can support for kyiv and fundamental principles of international law.
Because the problem is that Ukraine accepts a plan that supposes that a European country attacked loses territory occupied by military force for the first time since World War II, has implications beyond the Ukraine borders. Territorial integrity, enshrined in the United Nations Charter, is a principle whose international respect, especially the great powers, is essential to avoid precisely that military giants such as Russia – or China – can yield to the temptation to expand their territories by force. And that affects Europe, but also – Ivive the Kremlin appetite – to other Central Asian countries in the Russian interest sphere. In addition, many other conflicts could be called into question on other continents that remain in a precarious situation when Only thanks to the respect of this principle that Washington ignores now.
“Crimea is Ukraine,” said the European Commission in recent hours, in which he has also reiterated that, for the twenty -seven, “maintaining independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine is crucial.” “The sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine are not negotiable,” said the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. It is also of which the majority of EU countries and the US himself are members: “Allies do not recognize and will never recognize the illegal and illegitimate annexations of Russia, including the annexation of Crimea,” collects the Atlantic alliance in their position on Ukraine.
“The war of illegal aggression and not caused by Russia against Ukraine is a direct attack against peace, security and the principles on which the United Nations was founded,” recalled the high representative for foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, in a statement for the International Day of Multilateralism and diplomacy for peace. “This war highlights that the empire of the law should never be replaced by the empire of force. In many other conflicts that ride the Middle East, Sudan, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other places, the belligerent parties must remember that even the wars have rules,” he said.
the most lethal suffered by kyiv since last summer, the twenty -seven are also confirmed their fears that Russia does not seek a peace agreement, but only to extend the times to strengthen their position before future negotiations.
“While claims to seek peace, with missiles against kyiv. This is not to seek peace, is to make fun of it,” Kallas said on social networks. A message in which, indirectly, also rejected Trump’s new recriminations to President Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, for not accepting the plan proposed by Washington. “The real obstacle is not Ukraine, but Russia, whose objects of the war have not changed,” said Moldova, another country in Moscow.
“Russia must accept the total fire offered by Ukraine immediately and unconditionally,” said Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, condemning the last Russian attack in Ukraine. “While Russia is busy by choosing what the fire wants for a stop, Ukrainian cities continue to attack,” denounced the Lithuanian president, Gitanas Nauseda, who assured that his country will support Ukraine “until the final victory.”
His French couple, Emmanuel Macron, has also said that it cannot be expected that Zelenski accepts the terms of the high fire that is being negotiated between the US, Russia and Ukraine while kyiv, the capital of the country, is being bombarded. And he has urged the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to “stop lying.” In line with Brussels, the spokesman of the Gallic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Christophe Lemoine, added: of Ukraine is not a point that can be negotiated. ”
Macron, like most European leaders and the top EU representatives, will coincide this Saturday in Rome with Trump, on the occasion. It has also confirmed its Zelenski presence. Although nobody wanted to confirm a meeting with the American, in Brussels the door is not closed to an eventual “opportunity” on the margins, at a time when any effort can be decisive.
